# African memoirs

Writers include Camara Laye, Mohamed Choukri, Wole Soyinka, Nelson Mandela, Ishmael Beah and others. Set in or written from Guinea, Kenya, Libya, Malawi, Morocco, Nigeria and others. First published 1953 to 2016.

## Books

- [The Dark Child](https://africantales.net/books/the-dark-child), Camara Laye, Guinea, 1953
- [For Bread Alone](https://africantales.net/books/for-bread-alone), Mohamed Choukri, Morocco, 1973
- [Aké: The Years of Childhood](https://africantales.net/books/ake-the-years-of-childhood), Wole Soyinka, Nigeria, 1981
- [Long Walk to Freedom](https://africantales.net/books/long-walk-to-freedom), Nelson Mandela, South Africa, 1994
- [A Long Way Gone](https://africantales.net/books/a-long-way-gone), Ishmael Beah, Sierra Leone, 2007
- [The Bite of The Mango](https://africantales.net/books/the-bite-of-the-mango), Mariatu Kamara, Sierra Leone, 2008
- [The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind](https://africantales.net/books/the-boy-who-harnessed-the-wind), William Kamkwamba, Malawi, 2009
- [One Day I Will Write About This Place](https://africantales.net/books/one-day-i-will-write-about-this-place), Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenya, 2011
- [The Return](https://africantales.net/books/the-return), Hisham Matar, Libya, 2016
- [Born a Crime](https://africantales.net/books/born-a-crime), Trevor Noah, South Africa, 2016

## See also

- [West African memoirs](https://africantales.net/regions/west-africa/memoir)

Source: https://africantales.net/genres/memoir